CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Elliott Carter - 11th December 1908 - 5th November 2012. Elliott Carter died at home yesterday, aged 103. So much about Elliott Carter ...

  Tonight at the ENO - Ralph Vaughan Williams The Pilgrim's Progress .Yoshi Oida directs. (MY REVIEW IS HERE). That's seriously...

Han Suyin has died. Everyone's heard of her novel, Love is a Many Spendoured Thing ,  because it was turned into a hit movie in the 1...

The closer you are to your Inner Child, the more you get from Oliver Knussen's Sendak operas, at the Barbican Theatre. Remember be...

Oliver Knussen retrospective at the Barbican this weekend, but Hans Werner Henze's death last weekend still haunts me. Henze and Knus...

When Paul Spicer conducts English choral music, it's worth paying attention, because he's one of the finest interpreters in the g...

Tomorrow at the Barbican - Oliver Knussen Total Immersion. Actually, it started this morning with the high level conference (more here). ...

George Benjamin's Written on Skin is making its way across Europe. It's presently in Amsterdam, where Jim Sohre caught it : ...

Wild weather outside the Wigmore Hall on Halloween Night, but the Arditti Quartet sparkled, revitalizing what has been a relatively bland...

Lieder for Halloween ? The choice is huge, some choices obvious, But here is one that isn't quite so well known : Ferrucio Busoni...

An alternative Erlkönig? A woman and her son live alone in the wilderness.One night, there's a knock at the door. It's a gobli...

Hans Werner Henze on the scandal surrounding the first performance of Das Floß der Medusa (the Raft of the Medusa). In April, 1968, ...

When this came ourt in 1956 most kids were listening to Pat Boone...... i didn't discover it til 1964, but it changed my life. Neve...

Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012). Henze's death has just been announced by his publishers, Schott. Ironically, his Moralitäten is bein...

The Romance of the West Chamber (1927) (西厢记) was made barely two years after Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin , and was almost e...